Overview
Rough Sleeper Outreach Worker – NN16 8TL
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
This is a new and exciting opportunity to be a Rough Sleeper Workers, funded by the Government’s Rough Sleeping Prevention & Recovery Grant (RSPARG) to join our dynamic and successful Rough Sleeping Team to help ensure rough sleeping is rare, brief, and non-recurring across North Northamptonshire.
This posts will cover one of the four main areas in North Northants with flexibility required to work across North Northamptonshire and within the local community when needed.
Please note based on external funding this post is fixed term until the end of March 2026.
About you
You will have experience of working with and supporting vulnerable people and have a good understanding of housing and homelessness issues, including the barriers people face when trying to leave the streets.
You will have a proven ability to inspire and motivate people and work effectively with others and be able to work well under pressure due to the changing demands of the service.
To succeed in the role, you must be focused on achieving positive outcomes, have excellent communication skills and be an accomplished negotiator and problem solver.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details including the essential and desirable criteria for this role.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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